WHO and ESPEN join forces

2 billion adults overweight, 600 million obese and 462 million malnourished... contributing to 60% of cardiovasc death and 35% tumor death. In hospital, you have a 35% chance of 'disease-related' malnutrition. Dr Joao Breda and Dr. Kremlin Wickramasinghe from World Health Organization (WHO) join our battle in Nice.

2018 MNI Grant

The MNI grant rewards national initiatives or research projects for Optimal Nutritional Care. The objective is to support and/or inspire high quality initiatives. For more information check the following webpage: http://medicalnutritionindustry.com/grant/mni-grant/

25th ESPEN course of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care held in Croatia

Croatia was the host of the 25th ESPEN course in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic care that was held in Zagreb, from the 5^th until the 10^th of October 2018. The course, that was organized by the Croatian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, gathered participants from all over the world.  The global, multiethnic and mulitcultural character of the course, as its quality and academic excellence, was confirmed by bringing together 100 participants from 26 countries (Hungary, Thailand, Latvia, Austria, Italy, South Korea, Egypt, India, Poland, Finland, Slovenia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Cyprus, France, Estonia and Croatia) and lecturers from 13 countries  (France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Poland, Latvia, Austria, Serbia, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Slovenia and Croatia).The aforementioned is a clear acknowledgement of the growing interest in clinical nutrition and also the growing popularity of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism.

During the course the participants had the opportunity to enhance their knowledge by listening to more than 25 concise lectures of latest scientific data regarding clinical nutrition and metabolic care in every day practice. Furthermore, they participated in LLL courses focused on oral and enteral nutrition in adults and the approach to parenteral nutrition.

The quality of the ESPEN course is also confirmedthrough various workshops, case presentations and discussions held by both lecturers and participant ensuring active, intellectually rich participation by both parties.In addition, the added value of the course is that it provides an opportunity for participants and lecturers to share expertise and cross-fertilise ideas. Lastly, by educating MDs, nutritionists, pharmasists and continuously raising awareness on the importance of clinical nutrition and metabolic care the ESPEN courseis ensuring thekeypreconditionsfor optimal nutritional care for patients all over the world.

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The 25th ESPEN course in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic care

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All participants and lecturers of the 25th ESPEN course

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The 25th ESPEN course organizing committee

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LLL Workshop on acute pancreatitis

View the Program for the 25th ESPEN Course in Croatia - here -

26th ESPEN Course of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care held in Slovenia

AIMS 
• To provide clinically relevant information about clinical nutrition and metabolism 
• To improve knowledge about classification of clinical nutrition concepts and how to introduce the process of nutritional care in clinical work 
• To introduce the LLL programe 

click here for more information

6th ESPEN Symposium Perioperative Nutrition - Nottingham, UK

A very successful ESPEN Symposium united people from 12 countries who joined us for a fantastic meeting with focus on the Scientific basis of Perioperative Nutrition’

Join us next time!

109 people from 12 countries joined us for a fantastic meeting with focus on the Scientific basis of Perioperative Nutrition.

 

7th ESPEN Symposium 'How to best assess energy requirements?' celebrating 100 years of the Harris Benedict Equation click here for more information

Application for Associate Editorship of Clinical Nutrition

The Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Nutrition, Prof. NEP Deutz, is pleased to announce that the call for Applications for Associate Editorship of Clinical Nutrition is open.

The closing date for applications is 31 March 2020.

Application form can be downloaded here.

A decision will be made by the end of May 2020 !

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/clinical-nutrition

Call for Papers - COVID and Nutrition

Dear Colleagues,

COVID-19 has become a huge healthcare, social and economic threat worldwide during the past few months. Clinical outcome is poorer in several patient groups at risk for malnutrition. Persons with obesity are also at higher clinical risk. Nutritional care is therefore of utmost relevance in all COVID-19 patients and may play an important role also in disease prevention. Despite the relevance of nutritional research in COVID-19, available evidence is extremely limited. From over 75.000 publications on COVID-19 available in PubMed, only 1200 are retrieved when adding nutrition in the search, and just 169 when malnutrition is used as key-word.

Strengthening the evidence on the potential key role of nutritional status and nutritional care in COVID-19 is therefore an unmet clinical need and an urgent priority. ESPEN and World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe have discussed this topic and agreed to open a call for papers on nutritional status and nutritional care in COVID-19 patients, to be hosted in the ESPEN Journals Clinical Nutrition and Clinical Nutrition ESPEN. The call will be guest-edited by ESPEN and WHO officers.

Submissions are encouraged on various aspects of nutrition and COVID-19 in all clinical settings (home-care, hospital wards, Intensive Care Unit - ICU) with special priority for (but not limited to):

- Malnutrition risk and diagnosis in COVID-19 patient cohorts and their impact on clinical outcome.

- Special patient groups: older adults, chronic disease, ICU.

- Medical nutrition treatment in COVID-19 patients and its impact on clinical outcomes in all clinical settings.

- Micronutrients status in COVID-19 patients and their impact on risk of infection and COVID-19 clinical outcome.

- Obesity and malnutrition in COVID-19 and their impact on outcome.

- Organization of nutritional assessment and nutritional care in all clinical settings to face the COVID-19 pandemic.

All papers must be submitted to Clinical Nutrition with the article type: COVID-19 by February 28 2021 and if eligible for publication will be offered publication on either Clinical Nutrition or Clinical Nutrition ESPEN based on priority.

We hope and trust that this initiative will contribute to collect much-needed evidence on this very important but unfortunately largely neglected topic, with the ultimate goal to provide strong arguments for implementation of optimal nutritional care for COVID-19 patients.

Coronavirus, A word from ESPEN

The COVID-19 pandemics is posing unprecedented challenges and threats to patients and healthcare systems worldwide. The ESPEN community includes thousands of healthcare professionals that are primarily involved in fighting COVID-19, from ICUs to internal medicine Departments to general hospitals around the world. Saving lives from acute complications is the first goal for all of us. Still we need to remind ourselves and our non-nutritionist Colleagues that nutritional status and nutritional care play a very relevant role in defining both short- and long-term outcomes of our patients.

Unfortunately, we are being once more sadly reminded in the growing COVID-19 patient population that older, frail and comorbid individuals are those more at risk for negative outcomes, with major threats and risks arising from related malnutrition. We also know that patients surviving acute complications through long ICU stays will face further worsening or new onset of malnutrition and wasting.

Under difficult times of high pressure, and indeed all the more for that, we therefore must aim at following recommendations for best-practice in nutritional care to improve our patients outcomes. While we are finalizing further ad-hoc documents which will be available soon, you may refer to our recent and up-to-date material for direct guidance in nutritional care, including but not limited to ICU, polymorbid, geriatrics and home care nutrition patients.

Fully available educational material from our Lifelong Learning Programme LLL can also be found online and downloadable at lllnutrition.com.

Along with ESPEN’s commitment to provide support and guidance, we send you our heartfelt wishes in fighting this unprecedented battle.

Rocco Barazzoni                                Matthias Pirlich                                 Zeljko Krznaric

ESPEN Chairman                               ESPEN Secretary                               ESPEN Treasurer

ESPEN Early Career Faculty

The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) is pleased to announce calls for application for the position of Early Career Faculty.

Eligibility for applicants
1. Must be within 10 years after obtaining PhD/MD/Other higher degree and below the age of 40
2. Must be a member of ESPEN (with subscription being current)
3. Must be employed in an academic institution and have clinical/research experience in Clinical Nutrition, Metabolism, or related areas
4. The applicants could be clinicians, translational or basic scientists, or nutritionrelated health care professionals (e.g. nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, etc.)
5. The applicants should provide evidence of support from the Clinical Nutrition/PEN Society in their country of work
6. Appointments will be for three years and renewable for one more term, subject to performance
7. No more than four positions will be awarded to each member country
8. Applications for 2019 must be submitted on the prescribed form by 31 March 2019 to Professor Dileep Lobo (espen.fellowships@gmail.com) with the subject line “ESPEN Early Career Faculty 2019”
9. Results will be announced in May 2019

Expectations of ESPEN from Early Career Faculty
1. To attend ESPEN Congresses regularly (ESPEN will not be able to defray expenses, unless specifically invited)
2. To review at least 5 articles per year for Clinical Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition ESPEN or Clinical Nutrition Experimental
3. To review and score abstracts submitted to the annual ESPEN Congress
4. To participate in the writing of ESPEN Guidelines if invited
5. To moderate sessions (oral and poster) at the annual ESPEN Congress if invited
6. To develop, update and participate in LLL Modules if invited 

Advantages for Early Career Faculty
1. Will be part of a very vibrant society, given the opportunity to participate in scientific, educational and research activities and network with peers
2. Opportunity to progress to ESPEN Faculty positions
3. Opportunity of seeing and commenting on scientific papers before they are published
4. Opportunity to progress to the Editorial Boards of Clinical Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition ESPEN and Clinical Nutrition Experimental

ESPEN family meets in Nice, France ’Wintermeeting 2019’

The Executive Committee was happy to work with the Scientific, Educational and Clinical Practice and associated Committees to look back at 2018 and plan 2019 and future strategies. The most exciting part was to see all Council Country Representatives from over 40 countries around the world and feel all the combined energy people have to fight malnutrition and help patients in different fields. A positive, hardworking and determined group, but first of all, a warm family!

Photo Gallery

Browse the ESPEN Photo Gallery with pictures of ESPEN ’Wintermeeting 2019’ - click here -

ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in hospitalized patients with acute or chronic kidney disease – Second online voting

The second online voting for the upcoming “ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in hospitalized patients with acute or chronic kidney disease” coordinated by Enrico Fiaccadori is now available at the guideline services platform. The second online voting is substitutive of the canceled Consensus Conference. For access please contact the ESPEN guideline office guidelines-office[at]espen.org.

ESPEN Guideline on clinical nutrition in inflammatory bowel disease now available as an app

ESPEN launched its guideline on clinical nutrition in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) as an app version for smartphones and tablets. The app is available for download for iOS and Android. A web-based version is available here.

ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in the intensive care unit

New ICU Guidelines available on the website! Please go to Guidelines section, read and implement!

ESPEN guideline on hospital nutrition – Second online voting

The second online voting for the upcoming “ESPEN guideline on hospital nutrition” coordinated by Ronan Thibault is now available at the guideline services platform. The second online voting is substitutive of the canceled Consensus Conference. For access please contact the ESPEN guideline office guidelines-office[at]espen[dot]org.

Please note: Requests for login credentials cannot be processed between 30^th July – 23^rd August 2020. For technical reasons, we can only guarantee that you receive your login data in time if you send your request latest by 27th August 2020.

ESPEN guidelines: Online voting and Consensus Conference

The online voting for the upcoming ESPEN guidelines “ESPEN guideline on Clinical nutrition in Pancreas Disease” coordinated by Marianna Arvanitaki and “ESPEN guideline on Home Parenteral Nutrition” coordinated by Loris Pironi is now available at the guideline services platform. For access please contact the ESPEN guideline office guidelines-office[at]espen[dot]org.

The Consensus Conference on these ESPEN guidelines takes place on Monday, 29th April 2019, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) in the meeting rooms of the Fraport Conference Center at the Frankfurt airport. For further information and registration (possible until 1^st April 2019) please also contact the ESPEN guidelines office.

ESPEN guidelines:
Online voting and Consensus Conference

The online voting for the upcoming ESPEN guidelines “ESPEN guideline on hospital nutrition” coordinated by Ronan Thibault and “ESPEN guideline on clinical nutrition in hospitalized patients with kidney failure” coordinated by Enrico Fiaccadori is now available at the guideline services platform. For access please contact the ESPEN guideline office guidelines-office[at]espen[dot]org.

The Consensus Conference on these ESPEN guidelines takes place on Monday, 27th April 2020, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) in the meeting rooms of the Fraport Conference Center at the Frankfurt airport. For further information and registration (possible until 1^st April 2020) please also contact the ESPEN guidelines office.

ESPEN LLL Webinars

To foster the diffusion of ESPEN education in a growing digital world, the LLL Board has developed a web-based opportunity to deliver LLL courses, the ESPEN LLL Webinars, which offer the same number of credits as live LLL courses.

You can find the information using this link . The operation manual is available on the TLLL website.

Please, join ESPEN in the effort of spreading good clinical nutrition practice around the world.

ESPEN RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS   

Research projects valued at €10,000-40,000 will be considered for funding. Part funding for studies that have already been funded by other bodies may be considered (proof of funding award must be provided).

The applications will be evaluated on the following criteria:

1. Absolute

a. Current ESPEN Membership of the main applicant AND the project supervisor. The membership dues for 2020 should have been paid.
b. Ethical approval/Animal licence.
c. The work must be undertaken in a recognised institution (University or University-affiliated Hospital/Laboratory)
d. No more than one application per research group.
e. No more than two projects will be supported within one country and one per institution. Persons outside Europe may apply provide they fulfil criterion 1a.
f. Applications must be within budget (i.e. not more than € 40,000).
g. Full economic costing must be provided and signed for by a grant manager of the institution/representative of the finance department (The supervisor should not sign this part of the application).
h. No salary costs other than for the main applicant will be considered.
i. As ESPEN will support presentation of the completed research at a future ESPEN Congress, please do not apply for conference costs.
j. The main applicant must be a researcher (clinical or basic science) in training below the age of 35 years on 31st August 2020.
k. The application must be on the prescribed form and within the word limit. The application must be submitted as a single document.
l. No additional documentation apart from proof of ethical approval/animal licence should be submitted.
m. Completed applications must be submitted by email by 1700 hours CET) on 31 May 2020 to Professor Dileep Lobo, Chair, Scientific Committee, ESPEN espen.fellowships@gmail.com with the subject heading: ESPEN Fellowship 2020 Application. All necessary signatures must be on the application.
n. Applications received after this deadline will not be considered.
o. The Fellowship award will not be transferred to individuals, but only to an institutional account. 75% of the Fellowship will be awarded at the start of the project and the remaining 25% on receipt of a satisfactory progress report 18 months later.

2. Relative

a. Quality of the science/project design
b. Feasibility of the project (time lines should be provided)
c. Quality of applicant (bearing in mind this is a fellowship for researchers at an early stage of their careers)
d. Track record of institution and supervisor
e. Authenticity of budget. Approval must be obtained from the finance department of the institution prior to submission.
f. Value for money

3. Signatures must be obtained from an appropriate institution representative (grant manager/finance department) AND from the project supervisor assuring the following:

a. Justification of the costs – full economic costing is essential
b. Completion of the project
c. Presentation at ESPEN Congress within 3 years of award

ESPEN Winter Meeting 2020

Wintermeeting in Nice: From Australia www.auspen.org.au to Saudi Arabia www.sda.org.sa : 43 National Society representatives united in Nice, France at the ESPEN Wintermeeting to work, dream and make it happen: Practice, education, research and awareness on clinical nutrition and metabolism all over the world. Because we owe it to our patients...